Righteous Kill

About Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill is a 2008 action-crime film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Donnie Wahlberg, and Curtis Jackson. The film was released in the United States on September 12, 2008.

Two veteran New York City detectives (De Niro and Pacino) work to identify the possible connections between a recent series of murders. All of the victims are criminals that slipped through the cracks of the Judicial System and as the evidence mounts it begins to look like the murderer may be an NYPD Officer.

Righteous Kill was directed by Jon Avnet, written by Russell Gewirtz, and produced by Avi Lerner, Daniel M. Rosenberg, Boaz Davidson, Lati Grobman and Randall Emmett. The plot revolves around police investigators hunting a vigilante killer. Righteous Kill had a budget of $60,000,000 and is an independent production put together by Nu Image's Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla. The film began shooting September 2007 in New York and Bridgeport, Norwalk, Stamford and New Haven, Connecticut & Lawrence. It was announced that Brian Dennehy will also appear in the film, as well as Darren O (Band of Brothers), Dan Futterman, Trilby G Manda, professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek. This is Pacino and DeNiro's third film to be featured in together starting with The Godfather Part II but the second film they appear in a scene(s) together since the 1995 crime drama Heat.